I’m a bit late with this news, I admit, since this article ran on the BBC site on 14 October 2003. Nonetheless, I came across this while browsing through the BBC archives instead of looking for a job which is what I am supposed to be doing.
One of Scotland’s most remarkable wartime adventurers has died in the West Highlands, at the age of 90.
Patrick Dalzel-Job ran special operations in Norway in World War II.
Later in the war he joined the future writer, Ian Fleming, as part of a reconnaissance team in France, Belgium, and Germany – often far in advance of Allied lines.
Commander Dalzel-Job was said to have been the inspiration for Fleming’s most famous character, James Bond – a suggestion he himself played down.
[Source: BBC. Images courtesy of A Suitable Wardrobe and Zimbio.]